Market Infrastructure Engineer

About this role

Base seeks a Market Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate the production platform that executes trading algorithms, controls a distributed battery fleet in real time, and connects to wholesale energy markets like ERCOT. You'll build the critical systems that translate trading decisions into battery commands and ensure reliable, low-latency execution at scale.

What you'll do

• Design and operate production stack for trading algorithms and market bidding
• Build integrations with ERCOT and other grid operators for bidding, telemetry, and dispatch
• Create real-time command path from trading decisions to thousands of batteries
• Develop market data pipelines and observability tools for trading performance and fleet response
• Build simulation and backtesting environments for algorithm validation
• Own algorithm deployment tooling, guardrails, and rollback procedures

What they're looking for

• Backend or infrastructure engineering on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with latency-sensitive or failure-prone systems
• Programming in Go, Python, or similar backend languages
• Distributed systems and service-oriented architecture design
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD systems
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication
• Energy markets or real-time control systems (bonus)
• Time-series data at scale or workflow orchestration (bonus)